[mrsmel]

Why can they not get counseling and work on it? What happened to "for better or for worse"? What do they think couples do when one or both get too old or too sick to engage in sex any longer? There has to be more to it than that. I'm not saying that she should just forget sex at her age, but what about trying to work it through before just bailing, if they still love each other? Maybe it's just me, but I believe that there's a lot to be said for the idea of "it's being together at the end that counts", if two people love each other and have invested years of emotion and shared history in their lives together.

[dan1123]

What happened to "for better or for worse"?

More importantly, what happened to not having sex with 23 men before you get married?

[najida]

But sometimes, they simply don’t even like each other anymore. I know a 30 year marriage that ended because the wife went through treatment for cancer, and her husband, well...refused to turn the theromstat down when she was burning up.

Nothing new, he’d always been like that...but something turned a corner inside her—— she realized she wasn’t happy, and really, neither was he.... they were stuck in a old habit and thought they had to stay in it.. They were constantly at odds...wanting different things and had no reason to be together, other than habit.

And no, she will tell you he’s still a very funny, intelligent guy who will make some woman very happy. Just not her.